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Objective: To review the effectiveness and safety of stroke unit of integrative medicine for post stroke comorbid anxiety and depression (PSCAD) systematically. Methods: Electronic databases of MEDLINE, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, VIP Database, Wan-fang Database, CNKI Database were handled by computer retrieval, and Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine were manually searched for papers of randomized controlled trial (RCT) on Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) plus pharmacotherapy versus pharmacotherapy in treating PSCAD. In accordance with the inclusion criteria, two reviewers independently screened the related literatures, assessed the risk of bias and extracted the literature data, while the software of RevMan5.2.6 was used for the combining data analysis. Results: A total of 25 studies involving 2,044 patients were identified for this review. Meta-analysis results indicated that the integrative group i.e. CHM plus pharmacotherapy group showed more effective for PSCAD (OR=3.63, 95%CI (2.67, 4.95)), lower HAMD (Hamilton depression scale) score (WMD=-3.84, 95%CI (−4.66, −3.02)), and less adverse events (OR=0.71, 95%CI (0.51, 0.97)) compared with the control group i.e. routine pharmacotherapy group. Conclusion: The meta-analysis indicated that the integrative medicine treatment could be more helpful in strengthening the clinical efficacy and reducing the incidence of adverse events in the treatment of PSCAD compared with routine pharmacotherapy. However, due to the small sample size of included trials and the relatively low-rating quality in the majority of studies, further large-scale, multi-center and rigorously-designed trials should be required to confirm the effectiveness and safety of integrative medicine for PSCAD.

Migraine, one type of common headache, has gradually increased incidence rate, whose pathogenesis is not clearly understood, and no special medicine treatment. This article discussed migraine treatment in terms of its channel feature, applied acupuncture integrated with Chinese traditional medicine together and investigated the mechanism synergy effects from the aspects of excess ache, deficient ache and deficiency-excess complex ache. Finally, put forward the resent research progresses on the treatment of acupuncture integrated with Chinese traditional medicine.

Bell's palsy is nonspecific inflammation stylomastoid foramen caused by facial nerve. This is a common disease of self limiting, non progressive. The incidence rate of about 30/100000[1], clinical manifestations include dry eyes, dry mouth, and taste disorders or loss, Hyperacusis, incomplete eyelid closure, numbness of the mouth droop [2, 3]. Risk of ear and facial pain is rare [4, 5]. The prognosis is good, there is some 70% with or without treatment within six months to fully recover. But still some 30% in patients with Bell paralysis sequela and residual facial paralysis (29%), contractures (17%), and hemifacial spasm or associated with sports (16%) [1]. The use of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncturetherapy is effective, but the clinical study of Zhao's thunder fire moxibustion treatment of Bell palsy is lack of evidence. In this study, Zhao's thunder fire moxibustion cure coldBell's palsy, observation of clinical efficacy, and explore the possible mechanism of its effect.

The combination of acupuncture with Chinese medicine has a long history. Both acupuncture and Chinese medicine have their own advantages, the combination of acupuncture with Chinese medicine thought is to combine the two, to play a more comprehensive effect. Combination of acupuncture with Chinese medicine thought can be applied to a variety of clinical disease. In our study, some cases are cited to describe the advantages of combination of acupuncture with Chinese medicine.

Cloud computing, as a new system and architecture of data mutual sharing, is composed of three service models i.e. cloud software as a service (SaaS), cloud platform as a service (PaaS) and cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), as well as including three key enabling technologies i.e. networks of fast wide-area, server computers of powerful and inexpensive specialty, and commodity hardware of high-performance virtualization. Cloud computing technology brings in innovative and constructive ideas for the medical and health informatization. However, it also challenges many traditional approaches to application design and management of medical-sanitary institutions or other datacenters, especially the relevant issues of security, interoperability, portability, et al. that cited as major barriers to broader adoption. Based on the concept, key technology, core problem and principles, the author attempts to discuss the main issues of cloud computing in the construction and development of the medical and health informatization. We hope these considerations can provide reference to the service for the present medical informatization construction and practical decision-making in the context of big data.

To introduce the epidemiology and pathogenesis of knee osteoarthritis, review the literature from home and abroad and introduce the research progress of osteoarthritis of the knee. Represent the treatment methods and mechanism of knee osteoarthritis by the needle-medicine of mutual reinforcement of school. The academic thoughts of needle-medicine of mutual reinforcement can be traced to the same origin of traditional medicine on treatment of stasis. Its operation is simple, fewer adverse events, patient compliance is high, it easy to spread.

Medicinal vesiculation therapy has a long history, dating back to the warring States era. Along with the change of dynasties, medicinal vesiculation therapy continues to develop and extensive use, especially in the South of the present, it is favorable for a universal therapy. Now researching literatures on the clinical application, analysis medicinal vesiculation therapy in nearly 4 years, for the improvement and promotion of medicinal vesiculation therapy further development for reference.

Facial paralysis is the mouth, eyes to the side of the skew disorder as the main performance, also known as the deviation of mouth and eye, peripheral nerve paralysis of the facial nerve is equivalent to western medicine. Acupuncture treatment of facial paralysis has a very big advantage, acupuncture and moxibustion combined with acupoint injection for treatment of peripheral facial paralysis can significantly improve the clinical efficacy, shorten the course of treatment, is attracting more and more attention. Now the author summarize it that "acupuncture combined with acupoint injection for treatment of peripheral facial paralysis"for nearly 15 years from the VIP (Chinese Journal Database).

The concept and methodology of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and the strategy to promote efficacy of acupuncture in clinical practice are introduced in this paper. Then it focuses on using the data mining approaches to integrate the primary evidence from real practice based on conventional clinical data and secondary evidence by systematic literature review or Meta-analysis. The new analytic method is capable of explore in-depth on the latent rules and relations of acupuncture and Chinese medicine versus the effectiveness in real practice. A data warehouse is recommended to be set up to store and manage the above evidence processed by appropriate data mining algorithms and models. As the data from different origins is hopefully to be integrated in a clinical decision support system, it will be able to provide evidence-based references and recommendations for the clinical practice of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

Insomnia is common psychophysiogical disorder, characterized by sleeping difficultly or lightly, restless sleep and early awakening, usually with a series of disease, such as neurasthenia, anxiety, depression and so on. Nowadays acupuncture is a complementary therapy for insomnia which is regarded as one of most effective, widely used and well-accepted method. However, acupuncture is usually used independently. In this paper, we present a research protocol designed for a parallel, randomized, controlled trial to evaluate the effect of the acupoint injection combined with acupuncture treatment for insomnia with cardiac-splenic asthenia. In our study, the objective is to evaluate the clinical effect of the acupoint injection combined with acupuncture treatment compared with the acupuncture used independently.

This paper firstly define the concept of Combined Acupuncture with medicine, to explore the theoretical basis of acupuncture and drugs, Analyzed from the following aspects: comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, the way and method of combination, he current research progress, study on the mechanism of acupuncture combined with medicine. The objective is to grasp the characteristics and advantages of treatment of the acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, to explore organic combination of the two modes of treatment, to find the optimal treatment plan, summary of the law of combination of acupuncture and medicine clinical application. Give full play to the advantages of acupuncture and medicine complementary.

To explore the difference in treatment thoughts and therapy method between traditional acupuncture combines with herbal medicine and the needle-medicine of mutual reinforcement school in the treatment of tinnitus and deafness. Firstly, studied to the ancient cultural heritage and research, in order to understand the application of traditional acupuncture combines with herbal medicine. Secondly, to descry the needle-medicine of mutual reinforcement school in Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, base on the cure of tinnitus and deafness, to make a comparison with traditional acupuncture combines with herbal medicine. The needle-medicine of mutual reinforcement school in Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine carries on the traditional Chinese medicines theory and traditional innovation, even has better clinical operability, strengthens the patients' compliance, lightens the patients' home burden, is the one can continuously inherit and develop the traditional Chinese medicine.

The intervention of traditional Chinese medicine always focus on two highlight aspects: one is the ZHENG (syndrome) differentiation and treatment, the other is the concept of holism. By the process of fully collecting clinical data, establishing data warehouse and model, making the best of mathematical statistics, data mining, etc., the Chinese medicine (CM) clinical auxiliary decision towards the patients can be better maintained, promoted and accomplished, which can help the construction of clinical decision support system (CDSS), the improvement of clinical efficacy and the inheritance of CM knowledge. In this paper, the author went over the traits of CM clinical experiences based on the clinical decision support thoughts, and then attempted to summarize an architecture approach to syndrome differentiation of information technology, so as to serve as reference for the practice of CM standardization.

Radiculopathy is the chief pattern of cervical spondylosis (CS) characterized by neck pain, numbness, stiffness and radicular pain to the arms and fingers. Nowadays acupuncture is a complementary therapy for radiculopathy which is regarded as one of most effective, widely used and well-accepted method. However, most of the classic acupuncture is only taken by the proximal and local acupoints while distal acupoints along meridians is another empirical option, which considered as the point-selection treatment based on syndrome differentiation. In this paper, we present a research protocol designed for a single-parallel, randomized, controlled trial to evaluate the effect of the distal point acupuncture treatment for radiculopathy. In our study, the objective is to evaluate the clinical effect of the distal point acupuncture treatment along meridians compared with the classic acupuncture treatment by proximal and local acupoints.

Nowadays acupuncture is considered as a widely-used and complementary therapy for many diseases, which also has a long history in the development of traditional Chinese medicine. However, it still troubles us for the needling-infection, pain-sensation and inflexibly-operating. Chen's flying needle treatment has solved the problem above-mentioned for he has created a brand-new technology of acupuncture inserting-operation with the concept of ‘simple-ness, convenience, cheapness and effectiveness’. The inventor of the new technique is professor Chen-quanxin who has been engaged in acupuncture for fifty-six years and well respected as a distinguished veteran doctor of TCM in China. A research focusing on the clinical experience and academic ideological of professor Chen-quanxin has been established and carried out since 2007, which was supported by the Eleventh Five-year Project of State Ministry of Science and Technology(No. 2007BAI10B01-066). In this paper, we present a introduction for the development of Chen's flying needle based on traditional Chinese medicine. The objective is to arrange the operating standardization of Chen's flying needle and attempt to make it conducive to promote the use in hospitals all over the country.

Bell's facial paralysis occurs at any age which is considered as a common and frequently-encountered disease mainly characterized by spontaneous acute peripheral facial neuropathy. Nowadays the incidence of the peripheral facial paralysis is reflected up to 42.5/100 million in our country [1]. With the positive intervention of therapy, most of the high-risk population will turn out with good prognosis while a very small number of patients may experience serious complication. As the face is one of the most important and impressing parts of our body, it may bring serious impact (psychological or spiritual) on our daily life with the appearance of the sequelae and complication of the disease. Mr. Chen's flying needle treatment is one of the most effective, well-acceptable, non-invasive and brand-new technology of acupuncture. It was created after years of innovation and invention by professor Chen-quanxin who has been engaged in acupuncture for fifty-five years and well respected as a distinguished veteran doctor of TCM in China. With the early clinical trial of Mr. Chen's flying needle treatment, it indicates that there is a significant effect in the rehabilitation of Bell's facial paralysis of wind-cold pattern. Therefore, the summary and optimization of Mr. Chen's flying needle treatment is firmly conformed of overall arrangement of the standardization strategy in China. In this paper, we present a research protocol to evaluate the clinical effect of Mr. Chen's flying needle treatment for Bell's facial paralysis of wind-cold pattern. The objective is to evaluate the immediate efficacy and quality of life for Mr. Chen's flying needle treatment compared with the classic acupuncture treatment.

Sensorineural tinnitus is the chief pattern of hearing disorders characterized by hearing loss, sleep disturbances, inattention, upset, anxiety and depression, etc. Nowadays traditional Chinese medicine such as acupuncture is considered as a widely-used and complementary therapy for tinnitus. However, most of the classic acupuncture is only taken by acupoints while moxibustion is another effective and well — accepted method. In this paper, we prepare a study protocol for sensorineural tinnitus with the pattern about deficiency of qi-and-blood, and attempt to provide a scientific method for further study combining disease with syndrome on tinnitus disorder. In our study, the objective is to evaluate the clinical effect of the moxibustion at Da-zhui acupoints compared with the classic acupuncture treatment measured mainly by the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) score and audiometry examination results.

Using the GPS-induing-time function to achieve synchronously on or off of pharoses is a safeguard to indicate ships running in the inland river waterway runs safely, and which have been making important functions for the inland river waterway navigation safely. Designing and fixing the pharoses, make them synchronously on or off, can offer clearer flash flags and steer direction for the ship drivers sail safely. It is very prerequisite for the busy and strait inland river waterway to use the synchronous flash pharoses. And finally we can improve the pharoses to a new advanced level, opening up a new GPS application in the inland river fairway transport field.